188results about "Counting objects in stack" patented technology

To enhance decoding of signals suspected of containing an embedded auxiliary signal, a suspect signal is screened to compute detection values evincing presence and strength of the embedded signal. Screening strategies control detector actions, such as rejecting un-marked signals, improving synchronization of a reader used to extract hidden messages in suspect signals, determining authenticity of signals, and controlling use of the signals.

One embodiment of the present invention includes a system comprising a housing having an upper end and a lower end. The housing carries a plurality of movable blades defining an entry aperture proximate to the upper end, an exit aperture proximate to the lower end, and a chamber there between. An adapter may be provided for connection to the housing and for receiving an article storage container. The upper end of the housing carries a sensor responsive to the presence and absence of the article storage container. A memory device carries information about the presence and absence of the article storage container. An article determining and actuating station has electronics for interrogating the memory device, for controlling the plurality of blades and for determining the number of items dispensed. A receptacle collects articles that have been dispensed. Methods of associating a flow control device with an article storage container and of dispensing items are also disclosed.

An implantable pedometer for measuring the amount of joint use is disclosed. The implantable pedometer includes a sensor adapted for detecting indicators of joint usage. A counter is configured for storing count data corresponding to the number of indicators detected by the sensor and a telemetry circuit is configured for transmitting the count data outside of the body.

A system or method for counting the number of layers of a multilayer object is adapted for counting the number of layers by means of a simple arrangement of emitting an electromagnetic wave to strike the object that is in a multilayer state. In the system or method, an electromagnetic wave is caused to strike at least either the top surface or the bottom surface of a multilayer object and electromagnetic waves generated by reflection of the incident electromagnetic wave at the respective interfaces of the layers of the multilayer object or an electromagnetic wave generated by transmission of the electromagnetic wave through the multilayer object.

An automated transaction machine includes apparatus for distinguishing between single sheets and multiple sheets in a sheet path. The apparatus includes radiation emitters (14, 34) and radiation detectors (20, 40, 42). The radiation emitters are operated to emit radiation at periodic intervals. Signal conditioners (50) receive signals from the radiation detectors and generate outputs responsive to the intensities sensed by the detectors substantially only during the periodic intervals. The outputs are combined, weighed and / or compared to thresholds to distinguish single and multiple sheets. The apparatus enables reliable operation in noisy electrical environments and with a wide variety of sheet properties.

A method and apparatus provides for accurately synchronizing a plurality of sensors, as well as for providing accurate timing information (e.g. timing metadata) associated with the synchronized data capture. According to one aspect of the invention, an apparatus includes a synchronization circuit that stores a counter having a value corresponding to the delay characteristics of an associated sensor. The counter is used to provide a synchronization pulse to the associated sensor which is offset from a desired synchronization time by an amount that will compensate for the delay characteristics. In one example, one counter is provided for each associated sensor, allowing a high degree of accuracy in synchronization among a plurality of sensors. According to another aspect of the invention, the synchronization pulses are locked onto and derived from a pulse received from a GPS receiver. The GPS receiver is also used to mark time associated with the generated synchronization pulses, and thus obtain highly accurate time information (e.g. metadata) associated with the synchronization pulses provided to the sensors.

A movement pattern recognizing apparatus has a movement signal detection device including a sensor for detecting a mobile body in a detection region and for providing a movement signal indicating the position of the mobile body. The signal changes as time elapses. The apparatus further has a movement pattern storage device for storing data about previous movement patterns which were realized when a mobile body moved in the detection region, and a movement pattern selection device for selecting data about the movement pattern from the movement pattern storage device based upon the movement signal detected by the movement signal detection device.

One embodiment of the present invention includes a system comprising a housing having an upper end and a lower end. The housing carries a plurality of movable blades defining an entry aperture proximate to the upper end, an exit aperture proximate to the lower end, and a chamber there between. An adapter may be provided for connection to the housing and for receiving an article storage container. The upper end of the housing carries a sensor responsive to the presence and absence of the article storage container. A memory device carries information about the presence and absence of the article storage container. An article determining and actuating station has electronics for interrogating the memory device, for controlling the plurality of blades and for determining the number of items dispensed. A receptacle collects articles that have been dispensed. Methods of associating a flow control device with an article storage container and of dispensing items are also disclosed.

An implantable pedometer for measuring the amount of joint use is disclosed. The implantable pedometer includes a sensor adapted for detecting indicators of joint usage. A counter is configured for storing count data corresponding to the number of indicators detected by the sensor and a telemetry circuit is configured for transmitting the count data outside of the body.

An aquatic-animal counting system is provided. The system includes a channel, a linear photographing device, and an operation processing device. A channel is used for a plurality of aquatic animals to pass through. The linear photographing device is used for photographing the aquatic animals passing through the channel to generate at least one image. The operation processing device is electrically connected to the linear photographing device and the operation processing device includes an image processing module. The image processing module utilizes at least one operation rule to analyze the at least one image, so as to calculate a number of the aquatic animals in the at least one image. An aquatic-animal counting method and a recording medium are also provided.

Disclosed are a method, electronic device, and computer readable medium for determining an end-of-life stage of the flash memory. The method comprises detecting at least one life cycle event associated with a flash memory residing on an electronic device A counter that is associated with the life cycle event is then incremented. Based on the counter, a total number of occurrences for the one life cycle event is determined. The total number of occurrences for the at least one given threshold are also determined. A current life cycle stage of the flash memory is identified based at least in part on the determining if the total number of occurrences exceeds at least one given threshold. The life cycle stage is associated with the at least one given threshold. A user is then notified of the life cycle state of the flash memory.

A shift register has m stages which store one of two states, where m is an integer more than 1, each stage including clock input terminals at which n-phase clock signals are input, where n is an integer more than 1, and an input terminal, and an output terminal. The input terminal of one stage receives the signal delivered from an input terminal of the shift register or from the output terminal of the previous stage. The signal output at the output terminal of one stage is passed to the input terminal of the subsequent stage or to an output terminal of the shift register. Each stage receives an initial state level from one of the clock input terminals. The initial state level is used to initialize the state of each stage.

A method of evaluating one or more kernels of an ear of maize using digital imagery includes acquiring a digital image of the one or more kernels of the ear of maize, processing the digital image to estimate at least one physical property of the one or more kernels of the ear of maize from the digital image, and evaluating the at least one kernel of maize using the estimate of the at least one physical property of the at least one kernel of maize.

In a double data rate (DDR) counter and counting method used in, for example, an analog-to-digital conversion in, for example, a CMOS image sensor and method, a first stage of the counter generates a least significant bit (LSB) of the value in the counter. The first stage includes a first clock input and is edge-triggered on one of the rising and falling edges of a signal applied at the first clock input. The counter includes at least one second stage for generating another bit of the value in the counter. The second stage includes a second clock input and is edge-triggered on the other of the rising and falling edges of a signal applied at the second clock input.

In a double data rate (DDR) counter and counting method used in, for example, an analog-to-digital conversion in, for example, a CMOS image sensor and method, a first stage of the counter generates a least significant bit (LSB) of the value in the counter. The first stage includes a first clock input and is edge-triggered on one of the rising and falling edges of a signal applied at the first clock input. The counter includes at least one second stage for generating another bit of the value in the counter. The second stage includes a second clock input and is edge-triggered on the other of the rising and falling edges of a signal applied at the second clock input.

The clocks of remote computing devices are synchronized within a range of certainty through the determination of an upper bound and a lower bound around a reference time. A message from a computing device is propagated up a network tree of devices to a device having a reference time, which encodes the reference time and returns the message down the tree. Each receiving device can determine that the reference time could not have occurred before their transmission of the message, nor could it have occurred after their receipt of the return message. Cryptographic hashes can be used to guard against malicious computing devices. Alternate paths and scheduling of messages can be used to provide a narrower spread between the upper and lower bounds, and clock drift can be accounted for by increasing the spread over time.

Some embodiments provide an integrated circuit (“IC”). The IC includes multiple configurable circuits that configurably perform operations of a user design based on configuration data. The IC also includes a configurable trigger circuit that receives a set of configuration data that specifies an operational event. The configurable trigger circuit also determines whether the operational event has occurred during implementation of the user design of the IC. Additionally, the operational trigger event outputs a trigger signal upon determining that the operational trigger event has occurred.

A performance monitor device includes an input unit to input both of address information and event occurrence information, an address mask unit to determine an address area to which each piece of the inputted address information belongs, an execution frequency counter to count a number of times of execution of programs in the address areas, an execution frequency holding unit to hold a counting result of the number of times of execution, an event occurrence information counter to count the event occurrence information corresponding to the address areas having the counting result of the number of times of execution included within a predetermined number of highest ranks, a holding unit to hold a counting results of the event occurrence information, and a storing unit to store the counting result of the event occurrence information corresponding to the address area having the highest number of times of execution in predetermined periods.

One embodiment of the present invention includes a system comprising a housing having an upper end and a lower end. The housing carries a plurality of movable blades defining an entry aperture proximate to the upper end, an exit aperture proximate to the lower end, and a chamber there between. An adapter may be provided for connection to the housing and for receiving an article storage container. The upper end of the housing carries a sensor responsive to the presence and absence of the article storage container. A memory device carries information about the presence and absence of the article storage container. An article determining and actuating station has electronics for interrogating the memory device, for controlling the plurality of blades and for determining the number of items dispensed. A receptacle collects articles that have been dispensed. Methods of associating a flow control device with an article storage container and of dispensing items are also disclosed.

The invention relates to an Online bar section image automatic counting device and method. The invention relates to the digital image processing and applying technologies. The image counting device of the invention includes an upper computer, an image collection card, a CCD camera and a lighting equipment; wherein the upper computer is connected with the image collection card; and the image collection card is respectively connected with the CCD camera and the lighting equipment. The image counting method of the invention includes the steps of sensing and opening the image, pre-processing the image, processing edge detection operators, converting 2D distances, searching and counting seed points as well as displaying the counting result. After adopting the gray level image threshold segmentation and pseudocolor coding technologies, the invention not only can process gray images on the end surface of the bar section, but also can process blue or yellow images on the end surface of the bar section; the system adaptation is wider; the invention discloses a method for obtaining the perimeter, area and number of the bar sections in the image; the counting precision of the seed searching method is relatively higher, which can count partial bar sections with irregular end surface shapes and different shooting sizes.

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for error-compensated counting of Hall states for motor position feedback and / or commutation. An indicated Hall state is detected by digital Hall state sensors and a duration of the Hall state is compared to a specified time period. When the duration exceeds the specified time period, the indicated Hall state is compared to one or more valid Hall states and a position counter is changed for valid states. When the indicated Hall state is invalid, the position counter is not changed. The Hall state sensors may be connected to logic means and may detect the position of a rotor of a permanent magnet motor relative to a stator. When noise induces a change in an indicated Hall state, corresponding noise-induced effects on the position counter may be may be removed through error-compensated counting.

A system for endoscope data management of an endoscopic image of a body acquired by an endoscope is provided. An image filing apparatus retrieves the image from the endoscope, and records data of the image and scope ID assigned to the endoscope in association with one another. A washer washes the endoscope. A memory is incorporated in the washer, for storing log information of washing of the endoscope. A data manager retrieves the log information on line with the washer, to record the scope ID and the log information in association with one another. A server device records the data of the image, the scope ID and the log information on line with the image filing apparatus and the data manager. Furthermore, the data manager includes an editor for editing the log information of the washer.

The invention relates to a method and a device for counting bar materials which are loaded by a conveying device and belongs to the field of identification of computer images. The method comprises the following steps of: acquiring an image and transmitting the image to a computer; pre-processing the image; segmenting a communication region to separate the bar materials from one another; obtaining coordinates of the bar materials; combining information pairs; matching information; performing matching by two rounds; after two-round matching is performed, preserving the information pairs which are not matched in the current frame set; and eliminating the bar materials which are not matched in the previous frame set, increasing a counting value during eliminating, and repeating the steps. The device comprises an illumination light source, an industrial camera, a computer and accessories, wherein the illumination light source and the industrial camera are arranged in incidence and reflection direction in which end faces of the bar materials to be processed serve as reflecting surfaces; and the computer receives acquired image information and processes the acquired image information. The invention has the advantages that: accurate rate is high; real-time performance is good; and the labor intensity of workers is reduced during improvement of production efficiency.

A block-based object counting apparatus and a block-based object counting that improves the counting of objects by using a camera. The object counting apparatus includes: a camera acquiring an image; a storage unit for storing average sizes and error data of an object in units of image blocks; and a control unit having a data inputter for receiving the acquired image for input, an object size determinator for determining appearance of the object by comparing a current image with a previous image and then determining the size of the object, a block determinator for determining a block where the object is located, and a counter for counting the object and fixing the counting of the object by comparing the size and location data of the object with data stored in a storage unit.

The invention discloses a bar material counting method comprising the following steps: contour tracking; calculating a minimum bounding circle; forming a template and counting. The method uses an adaptive minimum bounding circle to approach a rod material end face. Carrying out contour tracking for an original image so as to obtain a contour of a binary image; calculating the minimum bounding circle so as to carry out polygonoun approximation; using the minimum bounding circle to identify the bar material end face, thus adaptively extracting a bar material end face radius template. Adaptively obtaining the minimum bounding circle to approach the end face according to the end face no matter the size of the bar material end face, and an error is controlled to be + / -4%. The method uses the bar material end face template matching strategy, and obtains the bar material end face template through iteration; an average radius of the template is Avg, and iteration is carried out in a steel bar end face bounding circle between 0.5*Avg and 1.5*Avg scope, thus effectively solving the bar material counting problems if the sizes of each bar material end face are not completely consistent in a whole bundle of bar materials, and precision can reach 99.5%.

System and method for checking completeness in a package, which comprises a plurality of objects, which are each provided with at least one electronic information storage medium. The method includes the steps of (a) storing in at least one electronic information storage medium, the total number of objects contained in the package and / or the total number of objects provided for the package; (b) detecting the total number of objects contained in the package by reading the stored value from the at least one electronic information storage medium in which the total number has been stored; (c) counting the objects in the package by reading the electronic information storage media arranged on the objects; and (d) outputting a first predetermined signal if the detected total number is not equal to the counted number and / or a second predetermined signal is output if the detected total number is equal to the counted number.

The clocks of remote computing devices are synchronized within a range of certainty through the determination of an upper bound and a lower bound around a reference time. A message from a computing device is propagated up a network tree of devices to a device having a reference time, which encodes the reference time and returns the message down the tree. Each receiving device can determine that the reference time could not have occurred before their transmission of the message, nor could it have occurred after their receipt of the return message. Cryptographic hashes can be used to guard against malicious computing devices. Alternate paths and scheduling of messages can be used to provide a narrower spread between the upper and lower bounds, and clock drift can be accounted for by increasing the spread over time.

The invention belongs to the field of image identification, and particularly relates to a stick counting method and a stick counting device. The stick counting device comprises an image acquisition module used for acquiring an end face image of sticks, an image processing module used for processing the acquired end face image of sticks, an image identification module used for identifying the number of sticks based on the processed end face image of sticks, and a result output module used for outputting the identified number of sticks. The problem that manual counting is time-consuming and effort-consuming and causes a big chance of error is solved. The number of sticks can be obtained immediately with high accuracy.

A screw counter includes a first interface, a second interface, and a processing unit. The first interface connected to a screwdriver, the screwdriver is adapted for screwing a predetermined total number of screws into a workpiece to perform a screwing operation on the workpiece. The second interface is connected to a detecting unit. The detecting unit detects a start time and a finish time of the screwing operation. The processing unit counts a variable, each time when the processing unit is changed from a first state to a second state, the variable adds one; a total added value of the variable is calculated during a time interval between the start time and the finish time to acquire a total number of screws which are completely screwed into the workpiece.